Enslaved

Enter the world of Enslaved – the newest IP from Namco Bandai Games and Ninja Theory for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In Enslaved you take on the role of Monkey a strong, brutish loner who has been captured on a mysterious slave ship 150 years into the future. War and destruction have left the world in ruins and you are one of only a few humans left. On the slave ship you encounter Trip – a beautiful, tech-savvy young woman who is also at the mercy of her captors. Trip is anxious to escape so she can make her way back home, but she knows she can’t do it alone. She has the brains, but not the brawn – you, as Monkey are her ticket to freedom. You soon become enslaved by Trip – bonded together by a slave headband. If you stray, you will be paralyzed by excruciating pain. If your stay, your fate is in her hands. In both cases, your freedom is no longer your own…

Enslaved featured heavily in the August 2010 issue of DEVELOP Magazine as a central focus to the article “Animation Grows Up”. Ninja Theory’s CTO Mike Ball explains how NaturalMotion’s Morpheme gave the studio’s animators the power to fine tune the characters’ motion, something that had previously been an arduous task. ”Morpheme reduced the time required to develop character animation and thus has allowed us to add extra complexity to the movement of the characters so that their fluidity and response is even better than what we had in our previous projects”